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Re:Machines That Will Think and Feel by JoshCole on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:27PM (#11320277)
This is incorrect. Assume nested virtualization. Extrapolate to infinity. On a computer, understood to be one like ours, it follows that there is now a machine that executes in finite steps will have arrived past infinity. Moreover, there are higher countings of infinity and these would of necessity be within such a virtualization. So it can't even reasonably be expected to compute everything even if you just have a very small sub-set of everything.
Re:Machines That Will Think and Feel by mirimir on Sunday March 20, 2016 @10:42AM (#11323086)
Well, I did say "anything" and not "everything".